blush

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of BLUSH

to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment) <she blushed when she realized she had walked into the boys' bathroom by mistake>

Synonyms bloom, color, crimson, flush, glow, redden

Related Words incarnadine, rouge, ruddle; abash, chagrin, discomfit, disconcert, embarrass, faze, humiliate, mortify

Phrases turn color

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